I appreciate him saying it upfront. Makes it easy to stay away from all of their products.
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Wow! I've always wanted a browser that would track everything about me! /s
Gotta get me some of that.
Do all these dickheads go to a school to learn the same specific hand gestures?
Girfters emulating each other
In other news, Perplexity has signed a deal with Motorola to have the browser preinstalled on their phones.
Thx, for the heads up. The only reason I'm not typing this on a motorola g85 is because I got distracted when I was ordering it. Now I've got to search for a different brand.
Companies are so removed from what users want, they only focus on what shareholders want to hear and don't consider that users will hate it.
Because there is legal precedent that says shareholders come first.
You can blame Dodge for this. Yes, that Dodge.
Oh, look, the reason Dodge reliability is garbage.
Real shocker, right? 😂
So to ensure that a company is more likely to be customer focused, rather than shareholder focused, it's likely a good idea to only go for companies not listed on the american stock exchanges?
Yup. Same goes for being employed - if they're publicly traded they'll almost certainly treat their staff like absolute garbage.
I mean, that's my take. Also why you hear a lot of moaning and groaning from enthusiasts when a company who makes well-loved products decides to go public. Enshittification always occurs.
Too bad, that long-term users still kind of decide the fate of the company (as shareholders at some point realize that their share probably is not worth it).
I'm really keen to see when this happens to Tesla, I'm thinking about shorting the stock, it's so vastly overvalued, and there's strong competition and sales are crashing everywhere (because of too much Nazi)
Too bad, that long-term users still kind of decide the fate of the company (as shareholders at some point realize that their share probably is not worth it).
Yeah, that's really the kicker, isn't it? Legally beholden to the shareholders who demand short term profits forever and ever, risking the loss of long-term customers.
It's a guaranteed death.
But then users use it anyway for some reason. Many people care so little.
Most people are unintelligent sacks of meat, not much critical thought about what they do runs through their minds.
It is legislation's work.
Attention is invisible until you take the time to acknowledge it. People will never treat it as a resource of the same value as these companies, because they don't even recognize it as something being taken away from them (despite that it is actually the most precious resource - our literal lives), and that disparity will always be profitable.
That’s like a cigarette brand marketing themselves as the most cancer-causing.
Before even reading the article, I’m thinking they’re maybe selling it as a good thing along the lines of “do you hate to see those ads you don’t care about? Taking space on your apps and pages? What if there was a way to make them actually useful! Make them feel like content, just for you!”
I feel like I have to point out that this is horrific either way
Edit: I actually talked about this quickly with a few almost tech-illiterate friends and they were honestly excited about that at first, when I didn’t preface it with my reasoned disdain for it or the privacy implications.. so despite the way we here react to it, I’m almost sure this will sell amazingly.
When using my current browser, any guess as to how often I've said to myself "I need a browser that spies on me more"?
Beep boop, this is your browser speaking. You have stated that you need a browser that spies on you more one (1) times.
6?
And people would voluntarily use this browser ....why?
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What a stupid name for a company.
Oh yeah I'm definitely going to use that. He's a marketing genius.
Hey, look for that browser to fail instantly as no one will use it.
They don't want people to use it. They want Google to give them a big bag of money so they can integrate it into chrome.
Can't sell reams and reams of customer data if you don't have any customers.
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"Help us improve your User Experience by trying as hard as possible to induce to spend money you don't have on crap you don't need."
Is Chrome not doing exactly this?
Chrome is relatively limited in scope compared to, say, a user on an instance of degoogled chromium just using the same Google services along with all the other browsing they do. The extra data that's gathered is generally going to be things like a little more DNS query information, (assuming your device isn't already set to default to Google's DNS server) links you visit that don't already have Google's trackers on them (very few) and some general information like when you're turning on your computer and Chrome is opening up.
The real difference is in how Chrome doesn't protect you like other browsers do, and it thus makes more of the collection that Google's services do indirectly, possible.
Perplexity is still being pretty vague here, but if I had to guess, it would essentially just be taking all the stuff that Google would usually get from tracking pixels and ad cookies, and baking that directly in to the browser instead of it relying on individual sites using it.
Chrome doesn't really collect much data directly. It just has no protection against all the trackers on nearly every website that do.
Ok how long after this browser goes live till we hear it being used by the FBI to track criminals.
Surely people don’t actually want this, right?
In mean it's what Google is doing for years now. Not saying it's good by any means but it's nothing new anymore.
P.T. Barnum in his grave getting a full on chubby for all the suckers that go for this shit
Damn, and I really liked them too. It's the most accurate LLM I've tried and it even accurately cites sources as well (unlike Copilot, which just makes shit up and then cites an unrelated source).
Jesus, that escalated quickly...
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